Horrible load factor

[NoOp]

On 12/05/2012 01:59 PM, JD wrote:
> Hi All,
> on Ubuntu 12.10, I clicked on Ubuntu Software Center
> in the apps menu bar on the left, and all of a sudden
> I could get almost no response from the system.
> I was finally able to run top in a terminal, and these
> are the worst cpu hogging processes:
> 
> top - 14:54:48 up  2:14,  3 users,  load average: 5.35, 3.17, 2.26
> Tasks: 238 total,  10 running, 228 sleeping, 0 stopped,   0 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 73.4 us, 26.6 sy,  0.0 ni,  0.0 id, 0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  
> 0.0 st
> KiB Mem:   2065284 total,  1757384 used, 307900 free,    58944 buffers
> KiB Swap: 12586916 total,     9172 used, 12577744 free,   413636 cached
> 
>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>   1221 root      20   0 85684  35m 9244 R 39.4  1.8  21:25.33 Xorg
>   7559 jd        20   0  531m 151m  36m R 13.5  7.5   4:37.02 thunderbird
>   8805 jd        20   0 65084  37m  24m R 13.5  1.9   0:06.17 
> update-software
>   3694 jd        20   0  688m 182m  34m R 13.1  9.1  22:17.12 firefox
>   8725 jd        20   0  270m  84m  36m R 9.9  4.2   0:16.87 
> software-center
>   2056 jd        20   0  232m  76m  31m R 4.9  3.8   4:51.45 compiz
> 
> 
> This is very very bad for a unicore AMD64 3700+  cpu.
> 
> Since I just installed 12.10, is this a clear sign of what to expect
> using ubuntu?

My guess is that you are experiencing this:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/+bug/363695?comments=all>
[update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU]